 have knelt, Implore, beseech, and pray— Strive the besotted heart to melt, The downward course to stay ; Be dashed with bitter curse aside, Your prayers burlesqued, your tears defied. Go weep as I have wept, O'er a loved father's fall— See every promised...  The Ladies' Illustrated Keepsake - Page 2391854Full view - About this book
 | John Greenleaf Adams, Edwin Hubbell Chapin - 1847 - 284 pages
...the cold, proud world's scorn. Thus struggle on from year to year, Thy sole relief the scalding tear! Go, weep as I have wept O'er a loved father's fall; See every cherished promise swept — Youth's sweetness turned to gall; Hope's faded flowers strewed all the... | |
 | 1849 - 52 pages
...soul that a friend accused her of being maniacal upon this subject, when she replied : Go, kneel as [ have knelt, Implore, beseech and pray— Strive the...burlesqued, your tears defied. Go, weep as I have wept, Youth's sweetness turned to gall — Life's fading flowers strewed all the way, That brought me up... | |
 | 1853 - 442 pages
...cold world's proud scorn— Thus struggle on from year to year, Thy sole relief, the scalding tear. Go, weep as I have wept, O'er a loved father's fall, See every cherished promise swept— Youth's sweetness turned to gall; Hope's faded flowers strewed all the way,... | |
 | Elizabeth Nicholson - 1853 - 412 pages
...cold world's proud scorn— Thus struggle on from year to year, Thy sole relief, the scalding tear. Go, weep as I have wept, O'er a loved father's fall, See every cherished promise swept— Youth's sweetness turned to gall; Hope's faded flowers strewed all the way,... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1856 - 440 pages
...course to stay ; Be dashed, with bitter curse, aside; Your prayers "burlesqued, your tears defied. 4. Go, weep as I have wept, O'er a loved father's fall—...Youth's sweetness turned to "gall; Life's fading flowers strewed all the way, That brought me up to woman's day. 5. Go, see what I have seen, Behold the strong... | |
 | 1857 - 452 pages
...cold world's proud scorn— Thus struggle on from year to year, Thy sole relief, the scalding tear. Go, weep as I have wept, O'er a loved father's fall, See every cherished promise swept— Youth's sweetness turned to gall; Hope's faded flowers strewed all the way,... | |
 | 1857 - 406 pages
...cold, proud world's scorn. Thus struggle on from year to year, Thy sole relief—the scalding tear. Go, weep as I have wept, O'er a loved father's fall; See every cherished promise swept— Youth's sweetness turned to gall ; Hope's faded flowers strewed all the... | |
 | Lydia Folger Fowler - 1863 - 250 pages
...Implore, beseech, and pray ; Strive the besotted heart to melt, The downward course to stay ; Be dash'd, with bitter curse, aside, Your prayers burlesqued,...to gall; Life's fading flowers strew'd all the way, That's brought me up from childhood's day. " b Go see what I have seen, Behold the strong man bow,... | |
 | Hymnals - 1863 - 168 pages
...cold world's proud scorn ; Thus struggle on from year to year, Thy sole relief—the scalding tear. Go, weep as I have wept, O'er a loved father's fall; See every cherished promise swept— Youth's sweetness turned to gall; Hopes faded flowers, strewed all the way,... | |
 | Sarah E. Wall - 1866 - 432 pages
...the cold proud world's scornThus struggle on from year to year, Thy sole relief, the scalding tear. Go, weep as I have wept, O'er a loved father's fall, See every cherished promise swept, Youth's sweetness turned to gall, Hope's faded flower strewed all the way... | |
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